The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Season 5: Release Date, Cast, and more!

Created and hosted by the Boulet Brothers, The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula is an American reality competition television series. The series aired on October 31, 2016, on YouTube and run for more than 3 seasons. Starting with season 4, the series moved to Shudder in all territories.

Since its original online airing, Dragula has received positive reviews and was dubbed “Required Horror Viewing” by Fangoria. The series has had consistently high viewership, and its fourth season was the most watched program on Shudder. On December 7, 2021, Shudder renewed the series for a fifth season.

So, when is the fifth season releasing? What is the format? Who will be the cast member? Keep reading to know more.

The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Format and Cast

Each episode of the show opens with a scripted scene starring the Boulet Brothers that introduces the episode’s theme and challenge. The rest of the episode is filmed in a reality TV documentary format. The competitors are issued that week’s challenge and must work with each other, work out their interpersonal issues and create their looks and performances for that week.

Both the competition and the show’s scripted cinematic segments are noted for drawing inspiration from the horror genre. The show’s influences include films ranging from “Mad Max and Little Shop of Horrors, to folk horror and beach party films.”

Each episode features a main “Floor Show” where each of the competitors displays their looks and performance on the main stage. The performances and looks are judged, and one competitor is chosen as the winner while the two or more lowest scoring competitors are put up for “extermination”.

The show features “Extermination Challenges”, fear-based physical and psychological tests created to push the competitors to “face their fears” to remain on the show. Past extermination challenges have included being buried alive in a coffin, being pierced with gauged needles, skydiving, eating cow intestines, and surviving an evening in an extreme haunted house. The competitor who fails the extermination challenge is “killed off” by the Boulet Brother’s in a scripted scene at the end of each episode.

The Boulet Brothers serve as the primary judges on the show and are the only regular judges on the panel. Each episode they are joined by a rotating cast of celebrity musicians, directors, writers, and horror alumni including Henry Rollins, Milly Shapiro, Amanda Lepore, Bonnie Aarons, Felissa Rose, Danielle Harris, Rachel True, and Cig Nuetron. American horror film director Darren Stein and drag legend Peaches Christ are the only judges to have appeared in all four seasons of the show. So we can expect to see them in season 5 too.

The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Season 5 Release Date

The makers of the show have not announced a release date of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Season yet. We can expect it in late 2022 or early 2023.

As having different numbers of episodes in every season, it is not easy to predict season 5. Boulet Brothers Productions and Ash+Bone Cinema production companies of the series. Further details related to the third season are yet to be revealed by the makers.

The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Season 5 Trailer

A trailer for the series has not been released yet. Until it comes out you can watch the trailer from season 4 below: